Car-replacer.



- Pafented Mar. 6, I900. J. C. BATES. GAR REPLACER.

(Application filed Sept. 25, 1899.)

\x L H TH k (No Model.)

WITNESSES lJNrrnn STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN C. BATES, OF GILMAN, COLORADO, ASSIGNOR OF THREE-FOURTIIS TO NORMAN S. BROWN, JR., ALBERT G. lVORRlNGTON, AND GEORGE O.

NOTTINGHAM, OF SAME PLACE.

CAR-REPLACER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 644,888, dated March 6, 1900.

Application filed September 25, 1899. Serial No. 731,631 (No model.)

To (tZZ whom it 772/601] concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN G. BATES, of Gilman, in the county of Eagle and State of Colorado, have invented a new and Improved Car- Rep1acer,ot' which the followingis a full,clear,

and exact description.

The object of my invention isto provide a simple and portable device whereby a derailed car may be readily and quickly directed to the rails of the track and to so construct the device that the replacers can be turned end for end and interchangeably employed and so that the wheels ofa car may be conducted from the surface of the ground to a proper (5 position upon the rails with the least possible resistance. I

The invention consists in the novel con-I struction and combination of the several 7 parts, as will be hereinafter fully set forth,

and pointed out in the claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, .in which similar characters of reference indioate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 is a plan view of a section of a trackand the improved replacing device in position' relative to the track. Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the track and the replacingndevice, a portion of the locking mechanism for the replacing device being in section. Fig. 3

is a transverse vertical section through a rail, showing the replacer in end view and the looking device therefor in side elevation, parts of the locking device being broken away; and

3 5 Fig. 4 is a longitudinal vertical section through the guide-rail used in connection with the replacing device.

Two replacers A are used in connection with the rails 13 of the track, one of the said replacers being adjacent to' the inner face of one rail and the other replacer adjacent to the outer face of the other rail; but the two replacers are in transverse alinement, as shown in Fig. 1. Each replacer comprises a base 10,

having a longitudinal recess 11 in each of its sides, which recesses are so shaped that either side of the base maybe fitted to the flange 12 of a rail 13, as shown in Fig. 3. The body 14 of each replacer is substantially elliptical in contour,the top portion 15 being dome-shaped, as shown in Fig. 2, and at each side of each end of each replacer a horizontal flange 16 is formed, each flange being made to incline downwardly in direction of the body of the replacer, and the inner ends of the flanges vanish at the central side portions of the body, I as shown in Fig. 1. The flanges at one side of the body of the replacers are provided with downwardly-inclined grooves 17, which grooves are adapted to receive the flanges of the wheels of a car evenly and direct the said flanges up the flanged portions 16 of the replacers.

The body portion of each replacer is preferably provided with a handle 18, so that the replacers may be readily carried from place to place, and in the interest of lightness the replacers are usually made hollow or with a recess in the bottom, and the ends of the base of the replacers which extend beyond the ends of the body are preferably strengthened by longitudinal ribs 19, (shown in Fig. 3,) and apertures 19 are made in the end portions of the said base 10 of the replacers, for a purpose to be hereinafter described.

A guide-rail 20 is used in connection with the base portion of each replacer. As shown inFig. 4:, these guide-rails have downwardlyinclined upper surfaces and a straight bottom surface 21, adapted to rest on the ties, which bottom surfaces of the guide-rails are provided with spurs 22, adapted to enter the ties or sleepers, and thus hold the guide-rails firmly in position. Each guide-rail at its inner or thicker end is provided with a recess .23 in its under face, and said recessed portions 23 of the guiden'ails are adapted tofit over the ends of the base portions of the replacers. The recessed portions 23 of the guide= rails are each provided with an opening 24, having an enlargement 26 at the upper end, whereby pivot-pins 25 may be passed through the openings 24, their heads resting in the enlargements 26, and the said pivot-pins 25 are made to enter the most convenient apertures 19 in the base portion of the replacers.

The replacers are secured firmly to the rails by means of clamps or clips 0, and each clamp or clip consists of a bottom member 27, adapted to extend beneath a replacer and the rail adjacent to which it is placed, an upwardly and inwardly extending section or standard 28, adapted to engage with the web of the rail 13 or with the side edge of the replacer, and an opposing-end standard 29, which is provided with a threaded aperture adapted to receive ascrew 30, the head 31 of which screw.

loosely receives a hand-bar 32, whereby the screw may be turned. The screw 80 is adapted to engage with the flange of a rail or with the side of the body portion of the replacer,

according to the position that the replacer occupies relative to the rails, as shown in Fig. 1.

When the replacers are placed in position, one inside of and adjacent to one rail and the other outside of and adjacent to the other rail, one of the guide-rails 20 will be between the rails of the track, while the other guide-rail will be outside of the track, as shown in Fig. 1, and when the wheels of a car are started on the guide-rails 20 a car may be drawn up the said guide-rails and on leaving said guiderails will be directed by the replacers to the main rails of the track on which the car should be mounted. At each corner of the body of each replacer a horizontal recess 33 is produced, into which the inner ends of the guide-rails 20 extend when the said guiderails are mounted on the base of the replacers.

Having thus described my invention, I

claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent-.

1. A car-replacing device, consisting of a base, and an elliptical body mounted on said base and provided with side flanges at its ends having a longitudinal downward inclination, as described.

2. A car replacing device, comprising a base, means forsecu ring the base to the track, and a body mounted on the base, said body being substantiallyelliptical in general contour and provided with side flanges at its ends, the flanges at one side of the body having downwardly-inclined longitudinal grooves,

as and for the purpose specified.

3. A car-replacing device, consisting of 'a base, means for securing the base to a track, a body substantially elliptical in general.c0ntour, mounted on the said base and provided with side flanges at its ends, which flanges extend downwardly in direction of the terminals of the body, sundry of the flanges having longitudinal grooves therein, and a guide-rail pivotally connected with the base of the said replacing device, for the purpose set forth.

4. The combination, with a car-replacing device comprising a base. and a body mounted on the said base, substantially elliptical in general contour and provided with horizontally-located side flanges at its ends, the flanges having an inclination in direction of the terminals of the body and sundry of the flanges being provided with grooves therein, of a guide-rail adjustably connected with the end portion of the base, means for securing the guide-rail to the sleepers of a track, and

a clamping mechanism for the replacing device, as described. I

In testimony whereof I have signed-my name to this specification in the presence of f two subscribing witnesses.

JOHN C. BATE-S. 

